So there is no way you can keep the original data ..this isesentially the parsing mucking up the data.
Can we have a different XSLT which will read the normalized data and convert it back to what it was originally

george i have sent the file to support @ oxygenxml
thanks

George,

In my XML i have an attribute which has base64binary data.This data has some whitespace in it .after i do a <copy-of> and i look under a Hex editor
the whitespace has changed from "OD OD OA" to "26 23 78 41".

I can send you my XML and XSL files if you want.

Thanks

I have a xsl which copies a xml file to another xml file while inserting new elements,attributes etc. I use MSXSL to do the transform. I have noticed in while looking under the hex editor that the newer xml the whitespaces have changed there were place which had a 2 bit whitespace which is converted...

Thanks george ,i need to OR it like you suggested..sorry for not being clear abt my doubts...i got it working

How can i write a single XSL that will get cpad from under cpadPtAddr and cpad from under cpadPtAddrFlr and output it top a pipe delimited text file. IO have two xsls that can do this seperately but match template works only for either cpadptAddr or cpadPtAddrFLr <?xml version="1.0"?> <te>...

thanks,
I got what i needed

Hi, I have an xml file , which has several elements ..i would like to add a new attribute to an existing element. eg. if i wan to add attribute "district" to element "Center" <xsl:attribute name"District">45</xsl:attribute> and write the xml file again with updated attr...